JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

 

VOLUME 18, NUMBER 6, JUNE 2005

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

REVIEW

Sporadic Phaeochromocytoma in Childhood: Clinical and Molecular Variability

J. Pozo, M.T. Muñoz, G. Martos and J. Argente, Madrid, Spain ………… 527

 

CLINICAL CONTROVERSY

Postponing Puberty in Children with Growth Hormone Deficiency (see paper by Bocca et al. on page 535)

C.J.H. Kelnar, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK ………… 533

 

Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone Analogue Therapy in Children with Isolated Growth Hormone Deficiency: Final Height Benefit from Postponing Puberty?

G. Bocca, N. Bruin and H.A. Delemarre-van de Waal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ………… 535

 

COMMENTARY

Kallmann’s Syndrome: Bridging the Gaps (see paper by Loidi et al. on page 545)

G. MacColl and R. Quinton, London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK ………… 541

 

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Kallmann’s Syndrome with a Novel Missense Mutation in the KAL1 Gene that Modifies the Major Cell Adhesion Site of the Anosmin-1 Protein

L. Loidi, L. Castro-Feijóo, J. Barreiro, C. Quinteiro, P. Cabanas, R. Varela, A. Alonso, F. Domínguez and M. Pombo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain ………… 545

 

Gender Identity and Sex-of-rearing in Children with Disorders of Sexual Differentiation

W.G. Reiner, Oklahoma City, OK, USA ………… 549

 

A Long-term Outcome Study of Intersex Conditions

G. Warne, S. Grover, J. Hutson, A. Sinclair, S. Metcalfe, E. Northam, J. Freeman and others in the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute Sex Study Group (MCRISSG), Melbourne, Australia and Oxford, UK ………… 555

 

Idiopathic Male Pseudohermaphroditism: Variations in Presentation and Management

V. Meau-Petit, V. Marcou, C. Trivin, S. Lortat-Jacob, K. McElreavey and R. Brauner, Paris, France ………… 569

 

Assessment of Pubertal Development in Egyptian Girls

L.A. Hosny, M.O. El-Ruby, M.E. Zaki, M.S. Aglan, M.S. Zaki, M.A. El Gammal and I.M. Mazen, Cairo, Egypt ………… 577

 

Antiepileptic Drug-induced Osteopenia in Ambulatory Epileptic Children Receiving a Standard Vitamin D₃ Supplement

H. Tekgul, G. Dizdarer, N. Demir, C. Ozturk and S. Tutuncuoglu, Izmir, Turkey ………… 585

 

Growth Hormone Improves Bone Mineral Content in Children with Cystic Fibrosis

D.S. Hardin, C. Ahn, C. Prestidge, D.K. Seilheimer and K.J. Ellis, Houston, TX, USA ………… 589

 

Effective Methimazole Dose for Childhood Graves’ Disease and Use of Free Triiodothyronine Combined with Concurrent Thyroid Stimulating Hormone Level to Identify Mild Hyperthyroidism and Delayed Pituitary Recovery

A.H. Slyper, D. Wyatt and C. Boudreau, Maywood, IL and Milwaukee, WI, USA………… 597

 

PATIENT REPORTS

True Hermaphroditism with Characteristics of Klinefelter’s Syndrome: A Rare Presentation

P. Isguven, M. Yildiz, I. Arslanoglu, E. Adal, M. Erguven and S. Tuzlali, Istanbul, Turkey ………… 603

 

Isolated Adrenocorticotropin Deficiency in a Child with Kabuki syndrome

K.H. Ma, S.N. Chow and F.T. Yau, Hong Kong, China ………… 607

 

Hemorrhagic Pituitary Apoplexy in an 18 Year-old Male Presenting as Non-Ketotic Hyperglycemic Coma (NKHC)

M.K. Kamboj, P. Zhou, W.J. Molofsky, B. Franklin, B. Shah, R. David and B. Kohn, New York, NY, USA ………… 611

 

Secondary Diabetes Mellitus: Late Complication of Glycogen Storage Disease Type 1b

R. Spiegel, Y. Rakover-Tenenbaum, H. Mandel, D. Lumelski, O. Admoni and Y. Horovitz, Afula and Haifa, Israel ………… 617

 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Neonatal Hypothyroidism due to Maternal Vegan Diet

J. Borak, USA ………… 621

 

CALENDAR ………… 623